andrea, it s not an isolated situation. it is happening all over the country. it s a decision by the republican party and the judges that support their position to take away the right of individual women and their doctors to make this entirely personal and sometimes life or death decision. to have legislators trying to draw up standards that apply in every case ultimately will create the kind of awful situations we have just heard described where some women will have their health and their lives in danger because the legislature decided to take a political position. for 50 years, we guaranteed the right of a woman to make that choice. there were limits, and there should have been. i don t disagree with that. the bottom line is saying this is left up to every state legislature and every state governor is just not in the best interest of medical care of our population. the senate is expected to vote later today on the d.c. crime law, which d.c. counsel has withdrawn but they are push
cultural. it s a big basket of concern out there. we gotta address it. ben, my colleague here, who covers intelligence and the pentagon, has a story up now on our digital platform that china has become a really difficult intelligence target. they are our largest superpower rival and adversary in so many ways. the admiral knows better than i what s going on in the south china sea. now it s so hard to discern what is happening at the senior levels. we saw it with the spy balloon and all the arguments over did president xi know, did he not know, did he approve it? the power of the communist party, right? that s exactly right, andrea. the reality is, our insight into the leadership thinking and decision making of the chinese communist party is quite limited. they are a tough intelligence
i also think that ties to kevin mccarthy and his decision ali was mentioning. this is a bad faith event by tucker carlson to whitewash this. kevin mccarthy trying to hide behind transparency doesn t work. this is part of his legacy as speaker of the house. this behavior you typically would not see from a speaker. but we have come to expect from kevin mccarthy. when you talk about close ties, they asked rupert murdoch about the fact he sent biden tv commercials before they aired to jared kushner, obviously the president s top aid, phil, that s pretty remarkable. he said, yeah, he is my friend. yeah, andrea, it was so interesting seeing these new materials that came in last night just how involved rupert murdoch was in involved and what
full transparency despite the fact that one news organization have this and capitol police and others are saying it s cherry picking of the material. a security threat according to the january 6 committee. david jolly, your reaction to the private texts, emails at fox? especially after arizona was called. they were first to call arizona for biden. andrea, hard questions for fox news now are breaking into public light, not just for their entertainment hosts but for their news division withholding the very call of the results of the presidential election. as you know now that many of the people they were platforming as guests, that fox news knew they were lying to the american people. hard questions about the integrity of fox news. also, hard questions about their ties to donald trump, the person and the candidate. clearly shows were designed to promote donald trump for purposes of ratings.
they re not perfect. they make mistakes. mistakes are not actionable under defamation law. you would have to show that a reporter or a journalist reported false information maliciously, actual malice. it s a tough standard. now here in this case, andrea, dominion has some pretty good evidence that fox acted maliciously. fox will say in court when the trial begins in april in delaware that we are giving a platform to people making these claims, even if we don t believe it ourselves. dominion will say on the other hand, you knew this to be false, you acted maliciously and in acting maliciously, you damaged our business, our reputation, our credibility and our ability to sell our products to other places that are holding elections. we sell voting machines. you said that our machines are corrupted and they are unreliable. does dominion win?